Chapter 14: They're All Killed!
The Hoppers are the lowest-level military unit in the Swarm, performing vigilance and assault missions, and while they may seem indistinguishable from other wild animals, they are able to cooperate effectively with large Zerg teams under the command of larger Insects.
Jumping insects are fond of tearing enemies to shreds with their razor-sharp claws and fangs, and they have the ability to move at high speeds and attack quickly, but have the drawback that they are vulnerable when acting alone.
Of course, the "vulnerability" here is for many cosmic powerhouses.
The tail of the jumping insect is long and pointy, as flexible as a snake's tail, which can keep the Zerg balanced in high-speed movement, which is why they have the confidence to move at high speed without losing their balance.
The skin of the jumping worms has the characteristics of toughness, with seven different layers of moisturizing skin, which helps them to lock in moisture even in extreme dehydration and hot environments, and keep enough fluid circulating in the body to maintain combat effectiveness; At the same time, due to the toughness of the skin, the defense of the jumping insect is equal to or even better than that of worker bees.
The eyeballs of the jumping insects have well-developed photoreceptors and a layer of reflected light tissue, and they can see at night, which is the talent of most zergs, but the visual capture ability of the jumping insects is more keen, and they can easily find the traces of the enemy.
In addition to these advantages, the hopper also has a special adrenal system, which is enough to keep the hopper in a perpetual state of rage, in which the hopper can easily shred ordinary tech vehicles and concrete buildings, and has combat power that does not match its size.
Of course, as a military unit of the Zerg, the jumping worm also has a special nutrient synthesis system, and the unique battalion reserve of the jumping worm is enough for them to leave the range of the main nest for a long time, and they can continue to maintain combat effectiveness without eating for a long time.
......
"Huh!"
One by one, the jumping insects went deep into the forest, and soon there was a "poof! Poof! Poof! The sound of sharp weapons cutting flesh one after another, accompanied by the terrible screams of the mutant beasts, gradually spread a strong smell of blood.
After a while, a team of jumping insects dragged the corpse of a mutant beast back to Wang Hui's body.
This is Wang Hui's order, since it is hunting, he naturally needs to bring some things back to help him better integrate into the gathering place.
Of course, most of the biomass in the corpses of these mutant beasts had been absorbed by the worker bees who came halfway, just like the five mutant wolves when they rescued Chen Hu and the others that day.
Because Wang Hui found that these biological corpses that have been absorbed into biomass, a pile of garbage that he can't look down on, will also be treated as treasures by the people in the gathering place.
Wang Hui will naturally ...... Garbage recycling.
When the jumping insects were busy, Wang Hui did not have restrictions and issued new instructions to the brain worms.
"Transmit bug information data."
The brain worm received the master's order, and soon sent it to Wang Hui to glance at it habitually.
......
Springtail:
Evolution Level: 1 (Primordial Hopper)
Body Information: Intelligence (1), Strength (2), Speed (2), Endurance (2), Energy Release (1), Combat Skills (2)
Genetic Talents: [Special Organism Status], [Ultra High Movement Speed], [Permanent Berserk].
......
"The comprehensive combat effectiveness of the jumping worm is much stronger than that of the worker bee, and the teamwork will be more able to exert the violent characteristics, and the direction of mutation development suitable for consideration is ......."
Wang Hui leaned against the tree and looked down in thought.
The killing speed of the jumping insects is so fast that it is far faster than the worker bees, so that the brain worms have transferred five worker bees in a row to meet the work of biomass collection and transfer.
Two hours passed quickly, and Wang Hui unconsciously found that the corpses of the mutant beasts piled up around him were gradually piling up as high as the surrounding trees!
"How many, hundreds?"
Wang Hui was stunned, not only the corpse of the mutant wolf, but also many small birds and birds, which should have been dragged down from the sky and killed by the excellent bouncing power of the jumping insects.
Wang Hui remembered that he had heard the intensifiers in the gathering place discuss during the meal, a hunting team, under normal circumstances, getting more than ten mutant beasts is a great harvest, if you are unlucky, you can only hunt one or two mutant beasts in a day, if you encounter a powerful mutant beast, there will be large-scale casualties.
And with these two hours of thinking, you can harvest far more than all the harvest scales of all hunting pairs!
According to the information from the brain worm, most of the mutant beasts in this vicinity have been killed by the Zerg, and the mutant beasts that originally vaguely formed a small-scale beast tide trend have been lost in less than three days.
And where Wang Hui is, there is not a single mutant beast left nearby!
Even the birds in the sky are gone.
Kill them all!
"If all these mutant beast corpses were brought back, wouldn't it be a little too shocking?"
Wang Hui frowned, and ordered the worker bees to devour and absorb most of the mutant beast corpses, leaving only a small part.
The meat of the mutant beast can supplement the meat food resources in the gathering place, after all, the members of many important positions need to replenish meat food regularly in order to have the strength to work.
The main job of the hunting team in the Wolong gathering place is not only to hunt mutant beasts, but also to find available wild food and collect seeds, to be alert to changes in the surrounding area, to kill mutant beasts as much as possible, and to prevent animal tides from attacking the gathering place......
The work of the hunting team is very complicated, and hunting mutant beasts is only one of the important tasks, if you only rely on the corpses of mutant beasts harvested by the hunting team every day, it is not enough to fill the stomachs of 100,000 people.
After all, in the post-disaster world, not only are animals mutating faster, but plants are not mutating slowly, and they are not even mutated as stable as mutant beasts, and plants mutate more frequently in the post-disaster world.
Every once in a while, there will be many small-scale mutations of plants in the wild, and there will be all kinds of subtle changes, a small number of plants are suitable for rations, and there are also plants that originally had trace amounts of toxins after frequent small mutations, which will gradually join the ranks of harmless rations.
The biggest factor in the post-disaster world is that the organisms in this world are genetically disordered and deviate from their original evolutionary paths.
Wang Hui thinks that this is caused by human interference, but he is too lazy to analyze the reasons and truths behind it, he is not a savior, and he has no motivation to reveal too many secrets of this world.
"Fifty or sixty left, right?"
Wang Hui pondered, there is no need to leave the corpses of birds and birds, and creatures with larger bodies such as mutant wolves can stay, and they look like they have a lot of meat, and the people in the gathering place should be very happy, and it is easier for them to gain the trust and respect of the members of the gathering place by doing so.
While the worker bees were busy absorbing and decomposing the trace amount of biomass remaining in the corpses of the mutant beasts, the jumping insects swarmed abnormally, frequently bouncing back and forth in a certain direction, and constantly sending signals to detect signs of biological activity in the direction of the main nest.
The jumping insects play the role of the Zerg watchmen, and at the same time are eager to attack all creatures that contain biomass in their bodies.
Wang Hui caught the signal that the jumping worm was sent to the main nest, and he was a little puzzled.
"The brain worms have been swept just now, and almost all the mutant beasts in the nearby forest have been killed by insects, how can there be?"
"Could it be a mutant beast running from somewhere else?"
Although the forest where the nest is located is of average size, there is also a large area of forest on the other side of the stream not far away, and it is said that there is a tendency to a forest sea, and it is an area that the nest has not yet touched.
Wang Hui speculated that the mutant beast that came from the larger forest might have been discovered by the jumping insects.
That's when it happened.
The hoppers sent a new signal, and through repeated Zerg perceptions, they had confirmed that the creatures moving nearby were a group of humans, and the number of them was about 30-40 people.
"A bunch of humans!"
Wang Hui was interested and rushed towards the direction perceived by the jumping worm.
Except for the people in the Wolong Gathering Place, he had not seen anyone from other parts of this world.